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« Reply #90 on: August 06, 2012, 01:53:18 PM » |
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« Reply #91 on: August 25, 2012, 02:23:21 AM » |
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« Reply #92 on: August 25, 2012, 02:39:30 PM » |
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me too. Is there any honest fellow Americans out there that will come to bat for some of these poor unfortunates? |
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« Reply #93 on: August 27, 2012, 07:41:03 PM » |
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http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/aug/27/cordova-teen-gets-22-years-for-sexually-abusing/?CID=happeningnowIt shocks me that the system screws up and there is nothing we can do about it. All I can say is why? This may have to have a federal appellate judge to overturn this unfair, unjust verdict. Prindle is innocent! However, Judge Crater is not listening to reason. If that other guy was honest, Prindle would be found innocent. I think that other guy's meddling in this case caused this verdict, along with the defense counsel not showing more guts out there. They are all chickens.
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« Reply #94 on: August 28, 2012, 05:35:43 AM » |
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« Reply #95 on: September 07, 2012, 02:32:55 PM » |
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heedless 07/09/2012http://wandervogeldiary.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/heedless/I told Stephen Sydebotham to stay away from kids and to cease his “advocacy” work or we were going to wreck his life, but he apparently didn’t believe me. We’re learning from multiple sources that Sydebotham is playing sick mind games with James Prindle and continuing to solicit money from people.
Sydebotham is actually telling James that supporters are falling by the wayside, and that it is James’ fault, not his. He has intercepted letters from James to at least one of his foreign supporters (letters which he was to have forwarded for James) in order to create the false impression that people on the outside are losing interest, and that only one person—Sydebotham, of course—is standing by the boy.
His ploy has unraveled. James knows that Sydebotham has been unfaithful and has been trying to manipulate him with lies. Sydebotham has now lost any hope of achieving his twisted ends.
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« Reply #96 on: September 22, 2012, 09:51:02 AM » |
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autumnal equinox 22/09/2012http://wandervogeldiary.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/autumnal-equinox/From Frank Manning: The start of my favorite season. Do we all love best the season in which we were born?
James Prindle told me late Friday afternoon: “You lost the bet.” When I first started talking with James on the phone I bet him that he would never see the inside of a prison. Today Judge Carter denied James’ motion for a new trial. No surprises here. What judge would ever admit that he had presided over a depraved travesty of a trial! Carter also confirmed that James would have to spend 22 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. An object lesson in injustice in America today. What a shameful abomination!
The really bad thing is that the jail in Memphis began preparing James for transfer to prison. He is not allowed to interact with the other prisoners in his pod. He is allowed out of his cell only for one hour in the morning and one hour in the early evening. This is utterly barbaric.
I am a sore loser. I still say James will never see the inside of a prison. Mike Scholl, the competent and caring attorney we now have for James, will file an appeal with the Appeals Court. We hope he will be able to have James kept in the Memphis jail until the appeal is heard. We will prevail.
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« Reply #97 on: September 23, 2012, 02:06:30 PM » |
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modus operandi 23/09/2012http://wandervogeldiary.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/modus-operandi/Last Friday Judge Bobby Carter denied a motion for a new trial for James, and Blade has recently been confined again to solitary, where his mother tells us he is shackled all the time in an uncomfortable position on the floor. Both boys are suffering as a direct result of Sydebotham’s callous and selfish frauds.
I now understand Sydebotham’s modus operandi and how he exploits his victims. He is in love with “lost causes” because of the sympathy—and donations—they can elicit.
He charms his victims’ parents into signing a notarized “temporary guardianship agreement” which is not confirmed by any court but is apparently sufficient to fool lazy prison and jail administrators into allowing him to act as a youth’s legal guardian. Thereafter Sydebotham’s every move is designed to isolate the youth from his family and others and thereby cultivate a dependency of the youth on him exclusively.
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« Reply #98 on: September 23, 2012, 03:27:31 PM » |
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Travisty for both cases. The corrections people need to spend some time in "the hole" to see how it is not right for anyone but the most serious of rulebreakers. But my opinion is for adults. Kids should never ever be confined to "the hole" So how did Sidenbothom ever get involved in defrauding poor innocent kids? Oh he took advantage of them like like agrees they should lock them up and throw away the key. He is the problem then. Where have all the cowboys gone?  |
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« Reply #99 on: September 30, 2012, 01:03:00 AM » |
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pazzo 30/09/2012http://wandervogeldiary.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/pazzo/I can’t get the image out of my head of James utterly alone in a locked prison cell far removed from any friendly soul. I’m hoping he doesn’t feel utterly abandoned as well. That’s not the case, of course—we’re all out here for him. Hope he can feel the vibes. I set up the phone account so he can call me from where he is now. I don’t know if or when they will let him call out. I do know that you do not need to be approved by the prison before writing to him.
Here is James’ address:
James Prindle (508396)
Northwest Correctional Complex
960 State Route 212
Tiptonville, TN 38079
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Please write to him. Encourage him. We’ve got to keep his hopes up.
~ Frank Manning
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« Reply #100 on: October 02, 2012, 12:25:31 AM » |
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Update on James http://wandervogeldiary.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/pazzo/Monday afternoon I got a phone call from Sam Prindle, James’s father. Sam thanked me for my advocacy of his son and for staying in phone contact with James. Sam and I talked for about 45 minutes. We got to learn a little about each other and each other’s family. And I guess we both got to find out just how passionately the other cares about the young man at the center of this intolerable injustice.
Sam also read me a letter James had written to him last Thursday, his first full day of incarceration. Remarkably, James is upbeat about his situation. He wrote that the prison is much nicer than the jail. His cell is bigger and cleaner, has more natural light, a real toilet and sink instead of the steel jail combo, and he was able to take all his books and other belongings from the jail with him. In the unit he’s in the inmates are allowed to wear their own clothes and shoes. They can even order name brand shoes from a prison catalog. Even more important, James will be able to continue his high school education at a full certified and accredited school. He should be able to earn a regular high school diploma.
We’ve also come to learn that James will be kept in that juvenile unit until at least his 18th birthday. If he stays out of trouble they will keep him in that unit even longer. That’s good news. Prison can be a living hell. For James it won’t be.
I’ve spoken so many times with James now. Given his circumstances, I am always amazed at his general good mood and disposition. I don’t know how he does it. So James explained it to me. “It’s my faith in the Lord that gives me the strength.”
~ Frank Manning
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